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'''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List'''
'''US History and AP US History Running Vocabulary List: Terms, Concepts, Names and Events'''


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== FDR & New Deal ==
* create general terms list; meanwhile see [[SAT Reading section historical timeline & themes]] (includes wars timeline)
** to add: political expediency
** Wars timeline


== Terms to know ==
<div style="column-count:3">
* abolitionism
* aristocratic
* blue collar v. white collar
* cession
* chain migration
* class warfare
* ''de facto'' v. ''de jure''
* delegate (as noun and verb)
* direct tax
* disenfranchised
* dissent
* domestic
* duties
* emancipation
* embargo
* equity
* excise tax
* franchise
* imperialism
* indemnity
* intolerance
* laissez-faire
* mercantilism
* nativism
* nullify / nullification
* Old World v. New World
* popular sovereignty
* precedent
* prohibition
* "Republican motherhood"
* states rights
* segregation
* socialism
* suffrage
* suffragette
* tariff
* temperance movement
* unalienable
</div>
== Colonial Periods ==
=== Pre-Columbian ===
<div style="column-count:3">
* indigenous
=== Age of Exploration ===
* Caravel
* Conquistador
</div>
=== Colonial ===
<div style="column-count:3">
* Bacon’s Rebellion
* headright system
* House of Burgesses
* indentured servitude
* Jamestown- general characteristics
* John Rolfe
* John Smith
* Jonathan Edwards
* King Philip’s War
* Massachusetts Bay – general characteristics
* Mercantilism
* Native American-European interactions, including disease, treatment of
* Navigation Acts
* New England town meetings
* Pequot War
* Puritan
* Queen Anne's War
* Roanoke
* salutary neglect
* St. Augustine
* the Great Awakening
* "triangle trade"
* William Penn
</div>
=== American Revolution ===
<div style="column-count:3">
* ABC Boards
* Boston Massacre
* Boston Tea Party
* Common Sense
* Declaration of Independence
* Enlightenment philosophers
* First Continental Congress
* French and Indian War
* John Locke
* Lexington/Concord
* Loyalist
* Montesquieu
* natural rights
* Navigation Acts
* Patrior
* Proclamation of 1763
* Saratoga
* social contract theory
* Sons of Liberty
* Sugar Act
* Thomas Paine
* Townsend Acts
* Treaty of Paris of 1783
* Valley Forge
* Yorktown
* Continental Congress/es
</div>
== Early Republic ==
=== Articles of Confederation Period ===
* Articles of Confederation
* Shay’s Rebellion
* confederation
* sovereignty
* supermajority
* unicameral
=== U.S. Constitution ===
<div style="column-count:3">
* 3/5ths Compromise
* amendment process
* anti-Federalists
* bicameral
* Bill of Rights
* checks and balances
* Connecticut Compromise
* Constitution
* elastic clause
* electoral college
* Federalists
* Federalism
* Federalist no. 10
* Federalist no. 51
* Federalist Papers
* Federalists
* George Washington
* Great Compromise
* impeachment
* James Madison
* New Jersey Plan
* Northwest Ordinance
* preamble
* preamble to the Constitution
* ratification
* separation of powers
* strict vs. loose interpretation
* unwritten Constitution
* Virginia Plan
</div>
=== Early Republic ===
<div style="column-count:3">
* 12th Amendment
* American System
* Cabinet
* Democratic-Republicans
* election of 1800
* Era of Good Feelings
* Federalists
* George Washington
* Hamilton
* impressment
* Jefferson
* John Marshall
* Louisiana Purchase
* Marbury v. Madison
* McColluch v. Maryland
* Monroe Doctrine
* Mossouri Compromise
* National Bank
* nullification
* political parties
* Republican motherhood
* Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
* War of 1812
* Whiskey Rebellion
</div>
== Antebellum period ==
=== Jacksonian period ===
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* John Quincy Adams
* Bank War
* Corrupt Bargain
* Force Bill
* Henry Clay
* Jacksonian democracy
* Indian Removal Act
* Nullification Crisis
* Petticoat affair
* Postal Service
* Panic of 1837
* Second Party System
* spoils system
* Tariff of 1833
* Trail of Tears
* Daniel Webster
* Worcester v. Georgia
</div>
=== Antebellum ===
<div style="column-count:2">
===Social reform ===
* cult of domesticity
* Declaration of Sentiments
* emancipation
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* Second Great Awakening
* Seneca Falls Convention
* suffrage
* transcendentalism
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
</div>
=== Antebellum ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Compromise of 1850
* Dred Scott decision
* Gadsden Purchase
* Gold Rush of 1849
* Kansas-Nebraska Act
* manifest destiny
* Mexican American War
* popular sovereignty
* sectionalism
* Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
</div>
== Latter 19th Century ==
=== Civil War ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* 1860 Election
* Anaconda Plan
* Appomattox
* Emancipation Proclamation
* Ft. Sumter
* Gettysburg
* Gettysburg Address
* Lincoln’s pre-war stance on slavery
* Sherman’s March
* U.S. Grant
</div>
=== Reconstruction ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* 13th, 14th, 15th Amendments
* black codes
* Compromise of 1877
* 40 acres and a mule
* Freedman’s Bureau
* grandfather clause
* homestead
* Jim Crow laws
* land grant
* literacy tests
* Morill Land-Grant Act (1862)
* Plessy v. Ferguson
* poll taxes
* Radical Republicans
* Reconstruction Act of 1867
* Reconstruction programs:
** Lincoln's plan
** Johnson's program
** Congressional program
</div>
=== Post-Reconstruction ===
<div style="column-count:3">
=== Economic & Political ===
* Andrew Carnegie
* Battle of Wounded Knee
* bimetallism
* Chinese Exclusion Act
* Dawes Act /assimilation
* Gentlemen’s Agreement
* Great Migration
* Homestead Act of 1862
* laissez-faire capitalism
* melting pot
* monopoly
* nativism
* Nelson Rockefeller
* political bosses
* political machine
* Populist Party
* robber barons
* Sand Creek Massacre
* Sherman Anti-trust Act
* social Darwinism
* Standard Oil
* transcontinental railroad
* U.S. Steel
</div>
=== Imperialism ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Battle of Manila
* “Big Stick Policy”
* Cuba
* de Lôme Letter,
* imperialism
* William McKinley
* Open Door Policy
* Panama Canal
* Roosevelt Corollary
* Spanish-American War
* yellow journalism
* USS Maine
</div>
</div>
== First half 20th Century ==
<div style="column-count:2">
=== Labor ===
* American Federation of Labor (AFL)
* Samuel Gompers
</div>
=== Progressive Era ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* "Square Deal”
* 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th Amendments
* Bull Moose Party
* Elkins Act (1903)
* Eugene V. Debs
* Direct democracy
* Federal Reserve Act (1913)
* Gifford Pinchot
* Hepburn Act
* initiative
* Jacob Riis
* Jane Addams
* Meat Inspection Act
* muckrakers
* New Freedom
* New Nationalism
* Newlands Act of 1902
* Progressive Party
* Progressives / progressivism
* Pure Food and Drug Act
* recall
* referendum
* Rule of Reason
* Settlement houses
* socialism
* Square Deal
* Upton Sinclair
* Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
* "Three Cs": Conservation, Corporate law, Consumer protections
* William Howard Taft
</div>
=== World War I era ===
<div style="column-count:2">
=== WWI ===
* Bolsheviks
* Espionage and Sedition Acts (1917)
* "He kept us out of the war" (1916)
* Jones Act (1916)
* Liberty Loans
* Lusitania sinking (1915)
* Pancho Villa (1914)
* Russian Revolution
* Sussex Pledge (1916)
* U-Boats
* War bonds
* War Industries Board
* Zimmerman Note
</div>
=== Post-WWI ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Collective Security
* Depression of 1920-1921
* Fourteen Points
* League of Nations
* Senate Foreign Relations Committee
* Treaty of Versailles
</div>
=== post-WWI & 1920s ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* "America First"
* Black Tuesday
* Court-packing scheme
* deficit spending
* Dust Bowl
* Harlem Renaissance
* Hoover
* Immigration Act of 1924
* League of Nations
* Lusitania/Zimmerman Note
* National Origins Act
* New Deal
* Palmer Raids
* Proclamation of Neutrality
* prohibition
* pump-priming
* Red Scare
* Return to ‘normalcy’
* Roarding Twenties
* Sacco and Vanzetti
* Scopes Trial
* Teapot Dome Scandal
* Wilsonianism
</div>
=== 1920s ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* automobiles
* consumerism
* credit
* Bathtub gin
* Harlem Renaissance
* Jazz Age
* Klu Klux Klan
* Margin buying
* radio
* refrigerators
* Scopes "Monkey" Trial
</div>
=== Great Depression ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Black Monday
* Black Thursday
* Hawley-Smoot Tariff
* Hoovervilles
</div>
=== FDR & New Deal ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Social Security
* Supreme Court
</div>
=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
=== Roosevelt Administrations ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Brain Trust
* Brain Trust
* Harry Hopkins
* Harry Hopkins
* Francis Perkins
* Francis Perkins
</div>
=== Pre-WWII ===
* isolationism
* "war footing"
=== Pre-WWII appeasement/ preparation ===
<div style="column-count:2">


== Worl
* A Philip Randolph
* America First Committee
* “cash and carry”/Lend-Lease Act
* isolationisms
* Lindburgh
* Maginot Line
* Munich Agreement
* "Peace for our time"
* Sudetenland
</div>
=== WWII ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* "arsenal of democracy"
* D-Day
* Eastern Front
* Hiroshima, Nagasaki
* Homefront
* Island Hopping
* Japanese Internment Camps
* Korematsu v. U.S.
* Manhattan Project
* mechanized warfare
* Nuremburg Trials
* Poland invasion
* Potsdam Conference
* propaganda
* rationing
* recycling
* Rosie the Rivitor
* Sudatenland invasion
* Tehran Conference
* Truman’s decision
* U.S. Neutrality Acts
* United Nations
* "Victory Gardens"
* war bonds
* Yalta Conference
</div>


== Cold War vocabulary ==
== Latter half 20th Century ==


=== start of Cold War
=== Early Cold War Foreign Affairs ===
* Berlin crisis
<div style="column-count:2">
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* Berlin crisis / Berlin airlift
* NSC-68
* Bretton Woods Conference
* ideology/ ideological
* capitalism  
* capitalism  
* Chiang Kai-shek
* China, loss of
* communism  
* communism  
* sphere/s of influence
* UK sterling crisis
* containment policy
* containment policy
* George F. Kennan  
* George F. Kennan  
* Greek Civil War
* ideology/ ideological
* Iron Curtain / Iron Curtain speech
* Israel/ Palestine
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
* Long Telegram / Article “X”
* Mao Zedong
* Marshall Plan
* NATO
* NATO/Warsaw Pact
* NSC-68
* proxy war
* SEATO
* sphere/s of influence
* Suez Canal Crisis
* Truman Doctrine
* Truman Doctrine
* Greece
* Turkey
* Turkey
* Marshall Plan
* United Nations
* NATO
* UK sterling crisis
* Warsaw Pact
* Warsaw Pact
* China, loss of
* Mao Zedong
* Chiang Kai-shek
* Israel/ Palestine
* SEATO


=== atomic age ===
=== Atomic age ===
* German scientists
* atmospheric testing
* testing
* atomic testing
* atmosphere
* bombers
* bombers
* A-bomb
* A-bomb
* German scientists
* H-bomb
* H-bomb
* brinkmanship
* brinkmanship
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* nuclear shield
* nuclear shield
=== Korean War ===
=== Korean War ===
* Truman v. Gen. MacArthur
* Chinese Revolution
</div>


=== Cold War diplomacy ===
=== Cold War diplomacy ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* East, the
* hegemony / hegemonic power
* nation-building
* Palestine partition
* Security Council
* Third World
* unaligned nations
* United Nations
* United Nations
* unaligned nations
* West, The
* third world
* nation-building
* Peace Corps


=== Eisenhower period ===  
=== Eisenhower period ===  
* containment
* containment in Asia
* containment in Europe
* containment in Latin America
* containment in the Middle East
* Cuba
* Domino Theory
* Dwight Eisenhower
* Eisenhower Doctrine
* HUAC Committee
* Joseph McCarthy
* Marshall Plan
* McCarthyism
* "military industrial complex"
* Suez crisis
* Suez crisis
* Eisenhower Doctrine
</div>
* containment in the Middle East
 
* containment in Latin America
* Cuba “Falls to communism”
* CIA
=== Domestic US Cold War ===
=== Domestic US Cold War ===
<div style="column-count:2">
* Executive Order 9835
* Second Red Scare
* Second Red Scare
* McCarthyism
* McCarthyism
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* Rosenbergs
* Rosenbergs
* Alger Hiss
* Alger Hiss
* baby boom
* suburbia
* conformity
* Space Race
* Space Race
=== Cuban Missile Crisis ===
 
=== Kennedy ===
* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* Berlin Wall
* CIA
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* Domino Theory
* Bay of Pigs
* Bay of Pigs
Cu* ban Missile Crisis
* Hot-Line  
* Hot-Line  
* Robert F. Kennedy
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* quarantine v. blockade
* quarantine v. blockade
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
* RFK
* Peace Corps
</div>
<div style="column-count:2">


=== Vietnam War ===  
== Vietnam War ==
* French involvement, 1954-1955
* French involvement, 1954-1955
* US involvement, 1959-1973
* US involvement, 1959-1973


==== Eisenhower period of Vietnam War ===  
=== Eisenhower period of Vietnam War ===
* Dien Bien Phu
* Dien Bien Phu


==== Kennedy period of Vietnam War ====
=== Kennedy period of Vietnam War ===
* JFK
* JFK
* Robert McNamara
* Robert McNamara
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* Camelot
* Camelot
* assassination
* assassination
==== Johnson period of Vietnam War ====
 
=== Johnson period of Vietnam War ===
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident  
* Gulf of Tonkin Incident  
* Tet Offensive
* Tet Offensive
* Walter Cronkite
* Walter Cronkite
* U.S. Public support of the War
* Vietnamization
* War Powers Acts
* Gulf of Tonkin
* Attrition
* Hearts and Minds
* Rolling Thunder
* My Lai Massacre
* Escalation


==== Nixon ====
=== Nixon period of Vietnam War ===
* Operation Linebacker II
* Christmas bombings
* "silent majority”
* "silent majority”
* Vietnamization
* Paris Peace Accords
* Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
* Bombing of Laos and Cambodia
* Paris Peace Accords
* Paris Peace Accords
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* Kissinger
* Kissinger
* Pentagon Papers
* Pentagon Papers
* Watergate
* White House protests
* White House protests
==== protest movements ====
 
==== Vietnam War protest movements ====
* draft, the
* draft, the
* hippies
* hippies
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* Jackson State
* Jackson State


==== post-Nixon =====
==== post-Nixon====
* Fall of Saigon
* Fall of Saigon
* Cambodian genocide
* Cambodian genocide


=== 1970s: Ford & Carter ===
== post-WWII Domestic U.S ==
*
* baby boom
* "Fair Deal" (1945-49)
* suburbia
* conformity
* Interstate Highway Act
 
=== Civil Rights ===
* “Little Rock Nine”
* Brown v. Board of Education
* civil disobedience
* Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Executive Order 9981
* Jackie Robinson
* Malcolm X
* March on Washington
* Martin Luther King, Jr.
* Montgomery bus boycott
* nonviolence
* Voting Rights Act of 1965
 
=== Other Civil Rights and Political Movements ===
* Silent Spring
* Michael Harrington
* Roe v. Wade
* women’s liberation movement (NOW)
* Cesar Chavez
* Grapes Boycott
* Chicano Movement
* American Indian Movement (AIM)
* Wounded Knee Incident
 
 
=== Johnson ===
* Great Society
* War on Poverty
 
 
=== 1970s: Nixon, Ford & Carter ===
* Watergate
* pardoning of Nixon
* pardoning of Nixon
* stagflation
* stagflation
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* Olympic boycott
* Olympic boycott
* Iranian hostage crisis  
* Iranian hostage crisis  
* OPEC
* oil embargo
* Camp David Accords
=== Reagan era ===
=== Reagan era ===
* Iran-Contra Affair
* John Stockton
* Landslide
* Star Wars
* "Reagan Revolution”  
* "Reagan Revolution”  
* Iran-Contra Affair
* Reaganomics
* Supply-side economics
 
 
=== End of the Cold War ===
=== End of the Cold War ===
* HW Bush
* George HW Bush
* Military spending cuts
* Gulf War
* Gulf War
* Bill Clinton
* Peace Dividend
* NAFTA
* service sector economy
* New Immigration
* Haiti
* Yugoslavia and Bosnia
* Rwanda
== 21st Century ==
=== War on Terror ===
* September 11th
* Al Queda
* Afghanistan War
* Iraq
* Patriot Act
== Obama Administration ==
* Great Recession
* ISIS
* Affordable Care Act
* Obama Care
* DREAM Act
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